Product Cost Controller

Overview

SYNLAB è una multinazionale, presente in Europa, Asia, Africa e Sud America, composta da quasi 30 mila dipendenti, che collaborano con il principale obiettivo di migliorare il benessere dei pazienti.

In Italia, con un team di oltre 4 mila professionisti, SYNLAB rappresenta il più importante e vasto gruppo di diagnostica integrata nei Medical Center e il più importante interlocutore dei servizi di Laboratorio. Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Toscana, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lazio e Campania sono le regioni in cui si sviluppa principalmente l\'attività di SYNLAB che è comunque presente in tutta Italia con partner accreditati.

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Mission, Vision e Valori

La Mission : fornire informazioni diagnostiche utili per una vita sana e per il benessere di tutti.

La Vision : una leadership conquistata attraverso l’eccellenza del servizio a favore delle persone e della comunità medica, con una diagnostica di altissima qualità.

I Valori : passione, responsabilità e customer centricity.

Ruolo

The COGS & B2B Controller is responsible for understanding, explaining, and anticipating COGS evolution across SYNLAB’s main business lines — Medical Centers (mainly doctors’ costs) and Laboratories (materials, labor, Opex, depreciation, and leasing).

The role combines analytical depth with business partnering, ensuring accurate month-end reporting, insightful variance analysis, and continuous improvement of the cost-per-test model within SAP.

As Finance Business Partner for the B2B segment, the role also drives customer profitability analysis, supports new client acquisition through business cases, and provides actionable insights to optimize margins.

Additionally, the role monitors, challenges, and coordinates the certification of cost improvement program (CIP), and oversees production volume analysis and forecasting to ensure alignment between operational trends and financial performance.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead monthly COGS closing activities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and clear variance explanations.
• Consolidate and explain COGS performance across business lines, identifying key drivers and trends.
• Maintain and enhance the SAP profitability model, ensuring robust and up-to-date cost-per-test calculation logic.
• Monitor, challenge, and certify SALIX (Matex) cost improvement initiatives, ensuring proper tracking and P&L reflection.
• Analyze and forecast laboratory production volumes, understanding their impact on cost absorption, productivity, and profitability.
• Reporting on the performance of the overall laboratory / operations of SYNLAB Italia, both at the level of operating KPIs, economic performance (P&L) and indicators / ratio crossing
• Partner with Operations to provide insights and foresights on cost efficiency and productivity opportunities.
• Act as finance reference point for the B2B segment: prepare and evaluate business cases for new customer acquisitions.
• Perform customer-level profitability analyses, identifying and proposing corrective actions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis related to COGS, production volumes, and B2B revenues.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement and automation within Finance and Operations.
• Other: new / review exam cost calculation (STD), lab costing update - BoM / CPT analysis, various laboratory analysis, spot analysis on margins for BCP / customer / exam.

Profile Requirements

• Degree in Economics, Finance, or related field
• 5-7 years of experience in controlling, preferably in healthcare, pharma, or manufacturing
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Proficiency in SAP CO and Excel
• Business partnering mindset with ability to challenge constructively
• Fluent in English

We offer

Dynamic and international work environment

Hybrid work model (2 days from home, 3 days in the office)

Contract and gross annual salary (RAL) based on the candidate\'s experience